Questions tagged [fonts]
{fonts} is about fonts and how to use them. It deals with questions about changing family, shape and weight of fonts, but also with font packages. If your question is not about a font in general but about specific symbols, use {symbols} instead. For questions about font sizes, use {fontsize}.
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Replace glyph from font A with a glyph from font B in LuaLaTeX/Node?
The issue is that I have a font that has 9 different glyphs per characters, glyphs called e.g. a, a.2, … a.8 for the lowercase a; and the glyphs look similar per character and have the identical ...
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how to make it so my document uses OT1 by default but I want to mix in a T1 character [closed]
How to make it so my document uses OT1 by default but I want to mix in a T1 character?
I want to mix in a character from T1, but still use OT1 by default. This is different from having a normal T1-...
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\setmainfont (missing characters) vs \babelfont (not all settings available)
(Disclaimer: if I am not mistaken, this question incidentally concerns transliteration of Sanskrit, but I know nothing about that language.)
The following MCE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{...
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How to stretch a content like the wave?
For example, the 'orange' we want the effect below:
The text moves vertically according to the height(of the waveline path) below.
If there are some words on a piece of cloth, imagine what will ...
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1. How to use "funny letters" in LaTeX? And why are there "fake" letters? [closed]
How to use "funny letters" in LaTeX?
Specifically:
the "phonetic" package (not to be confused with TIPA)
the T4 encoding
the X2 encoding (for various Cyrillic letters)
inside ...
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How to make a space character?
In the encoding tables I can't find the code for spaces, all characters are there but no space. How does LaTeX internally represent spaces?
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\addfontfeatures{FakeBold=...} no effect in lualatex?
I am migrating some existing documents in pdflatex that essentially just use Computer Modern Sans to lualatex, which seems generally to work fine without much ado.
But there is one pdflatex feature I ...
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auto fetching missing characters from other fonts
Is it possible to fetch the missing characters from a font to other fonts in which that characters are there without manual work, MWE is
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsfonts,amsmath,amssymb}
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Change Typeface Inside Description Environment
How can I select the typeface for all terms like Fire Prism and Rangers inside description environment across the document?
\documentclass[10pt, a5paper]{report}
\usepackage[left=12mm, top=18mm, ...
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Fell in love with a Microsoft font ("Chalkboard"). How can I use it in LaTeX? [closed]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalkboard_%28typeface%29
I found a font called Chalkboard and felt it was very suitable for a presentation.
Is there some way to make use of this font (or something very ...
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How to set a custom encoding in Metafont?
font_quad:=150pt#;
font_normal_space:=50pt#;
font_normal_stretch:=6pt#;
font_normal_shrink:=5pt#;
font_identifier:="tpie";
font_coding_scheme:="AEFMNOPST only";
What ...
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How can I make the Laplace variable '$s$' look different from the unit 's' and symbol '$S$' in my document?
Suppose I am writing a document where I use:
$S$ as a switch symbol in circuit diagrams,
s as the time unit “second”, and
$s$ as the Laplace operator variable.
I would like to make the Laplace ...
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How to make Textfield font match page font?
so for work I wanted to create a pdf logbook template with fillable fields, so i can quickly create a new logbook entry. For that I wanted to use the hyperref package with textfields etc.
During ...
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How to change new computer modern font bold series to non-extended?
I noticed there is one new computer modern font avaliable and added book weight, I set the font by \usepackage[default]{fontsetup} package and found my chapter/section/subsection title setted to bold ...
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Math Font seek: Italic 'p' with Sharp Ascending Flick Tail, Looped 'k' Descender, and Overall Razor-Sharp Serifs [duplicate]
I came across a picture and am eager to identify the font used in it.
Based on the visual features I've observed:
Italic 'p': The left connection between the stem and bowl must feature a short, sharp ...
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